Some of the refugees taken to Texas have been released from custody. But instead of being flown back home, they were released in Texas “without money, identification, or phones,” CNN reported.
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Hilarious given that Texas spent millions of taxpayer dollars recruiting immigrants to fly to blue cities when Biden was in office.
MAGA doesn't recognize irony, any more than they can recognize hypocrisy.
Florida even put money in their budget to fund flights out of Texas. DiSantis wants to abuse undocumented people so badly.
You want out so bad? There, you're out. Now quit complaining, and get walking. It's 100 miles in any direction to the next town.
What horrible line was crossed?
Was it advocating for sexual assault?
The blatant racism?
The Islamophobia?
Putting children in cages?
By passing Congress at every turn?
Starting an insurrection?
Hoarding classified documents?
Picking fights with allies?
Attacking the LGBT community?
Celebrating white supremacist?
The straight up naked corruption?
Backing genocide?
Striping away democratic processes?
Sending ICE into cities for massive deportation raids?
The line was crossed ages ago.
both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.
Sounds like a good way to get your passport stolen to me.
Maybe they could just wear a patch on their clothing to denote who they are, like a Yellow Star or a Pink Triangle.
What were y'all expecting.
Exactly this, and the rest that's coming, and all the horrors that will be discovered to have happened when/if this ever ends.
I'm expecting full holocaust. I so want to be wrong but things keep getting closer and closer to it. I'm scared the fascists will come to Canada and come for me
They've got a pretty long to-do list for here before they start looking your way. Keep an eye out for your own home-grown ones though.
It's important to remember that this isn't isolated to America. Russia is turning up the far-right heat EVERYWHERE, and using America as the distraction, so you'll let it happen in your country: "At least it isn't as bad as what's happening in America."
Yet.
There are fascists in Canada, mostly in Alberta
Seriously, don't let your people turn fascist too
if a "terrifying line is being crossed" every day, how does that affect you? Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
As a Minnesotan, I can answer that
It's both
Most days the new line being crosses is horrifying. I remember the video of the doordash driver that hid in a customer's basement. Seeing the terror in her eyes. Hearing the homeowners crying and apologizing as they're forced to throw her to the wolves. That one hurt to watch. Deeply reminiscent of Nazis hunting for jews
Other events just leave me numb. Like Alex Pretti. It was objectively a huge line to cross, yet I felt so numb to it initially. Some days the mental fatigue is just too much
The war they're waging is a psychological one first and foremost. Do your best to stay strong and remember what's on the line
If nothing is done when the line is first crossed, and that crossing then continues to happen on a daily basis, then it has just become the new normal.
None of us can handle the "big picture", we are all at best familiar with just a small portion of the fuckery going on. There isn't enough time in the day
It's not even a "USA" thing. Wait until other countries figure out it's an international consortium of the super wealthy families and business interests that have been around since the slavery days!
They own Think Tanks and publish opinion pieces and studies all over the world, and own most of the modern media landscape, and trade practically everywhere in US dollars and more (each country is different, you tell me the country and I'll tell you how they subsidize or are subsidized by the USA-UK superfriends).
Check out the Panama and Pandora Papers for starters, and so much more.
They are not even vaguely US nationalist, they will drop the USA as soon as it is more profitable than not to do so.
Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
Yes
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When farmers burn weeds they often mix a popular petrochemical that's sold at most beer/cig/candy stores and simple Irish bars of lavender, it's pretty useful stuff. For burning weeds.
........am I stupid? I have zero clue what that has to do with this story. What context am I missing?
Sounds like some sort of napalm.
It's like how gas stations and smoke shops have "tabacco" pipes that are for "tobacco use only" and you absolutely can't use them to smoke anything else with, only tobacco.
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My new shotgun and rifle arrive in 2-3 weeks...can't come soon enough.
I'm big anti-gun, but if I was in Minnesota I'd be adapting. I don't blame you at all.
Please learn how to use them safely and become 110% comfortable using them.
Taking classes!
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"We should all be standing up and saying that’s not OK. Literally, listen to what they’re saying. Active threats like, Turn over the voter rolls or else, or we will continue to do what we’re doing. That’s something you can do in America now."
And from the original NYT interview:
I spoke to Frey on Thursday afternoon, not long after Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan — who has been dispatched to Minneapolis to replace and clean up after the operation’s original commander Gregory Bovino — promised to de-escalate the situation there. He said in a news conference that there would be a drawdown of agents, only to have President Trump later deny that there was any plan to pull back.
It's this type of dissonance inside the admin that gives me hope.
There's also a YT video.
He has some pretty good answers to the interviewers annoying, pushy and leading questions.
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